How to format your references using the Theoretical Chemistry Accounts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wilmot CM (2007) Biochemistry. An ancient and intimate partnership. Science 316:379–380

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson PM, Ollason JC (2001) Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature 413:417–420

A journal article with 3 authors

Clayton JD, Kyriacou CP, Reppert SM (2001) Keeping time with the human genome. Nature 409:829–831

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Marko PB, Lee SC, Rice AM, et al (2004) Fisheries: mislabelling of a depleted reef fish. Nature 430:309–310

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Kroupa VF (2005) Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mackinnon AC Jr (2012) Pediatric Neoplasia: Advances in Molecular Pathology and Translational Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Rizzo AM, Berselli P, Zava S, et al (2010) Endogenous Antioxidants and Radical Scavengers. In: Giardi MT, Rea G, Berra B (eds) Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 52–67

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Scientists Find Vessels That Connect Immune System And Brain. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1998) FCC: Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1998. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Li J (2015) Growth Prediction of New Fractures in the Shadows of Existing Hydraulic Fractures in Shale Gas Formations. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Wagner J (2017) Role Players Define the Dodgers, and Hernandez Has a Leading Part. New York Times D3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical Chemistry Accounts
Abbreviation	Theor. Chem. Acc.
ISSN (print)	1432-881X
ISSN (online)	1432-2234
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry